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japan, v.|dʒəˈpæn|
Also 8 japon.
[f. prec., sense 2.]
1. trans. To lacquer with japan; to varnish with any material that gives a hard black gloss.
1688Parker & Stalker (title) A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing. Ibid. xi. 35 They may be Japanned, and look well. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 400 Laquer which is used in Japanning of Cabinets. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. lv, A square table that had been once japanned. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 37 Made of copper, or tinned iron plates japanned within and without.
2. transf. To make black and glossy as in japanning; to polish or cover with black.
1714[see japanning vbl. n.]. 1730Royal Remarks 7 ‘Dear Jack’ has exhausted his splendid Shilling, and now cries ‘Japan your shoes, your Honour’. 1812W. Combe Dr. Syntax x. ix, His gaiters, too, were fresh japann'd. 1818Scott Rob Roy v, The monsters of heraldry..grinned and ramped in red freestone, now japanned by the smoke of centuries. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xix. viii. (1873) VIII. 265 Japanning people with pitch to cure them of every malady.
3. slang. To make clerical, to ordain. (With reference to the black coat.)
1756Connoisseur No. 105 ⁋3 He had been double-japanned (as he called it) about a year ago, and was the present incumbent of —. 1796Grose Dict. Vulg. T. s.v. 1826Sporting Mag. XVIII. 283 My friend's son had just been ordained Deacon, or, in the language of the day, ‘japanned’. 1879J. Payn High Spirits II. 106 He had passed his ‘voluntary’, and was to be ‘japanned’ in a fortnight. |